PHOTOGRAPHIC THREADS: camera queries, any photo tech stuff!

[afw]

Hello Maggi

Perhaps alan is better, not so awful.

Regards

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Alan, yes, that is nicer, thank you!

[Lesley Cox]

Each leg is made from flexible joints that rotate through 360 degrees,

I wish I had legs like that. Do they really mean 45 grams? That's less than 2 ounces (in old money).

[Maggi Young]

Yes, it does seem very light, there were no other measurements given. I suspect it may be pretty flimsy.
I've had a root about and found that this is the smallest model, there are others which are msuitable for bigger cameras/digital SLRs etc.
 Those are pricier, of course, but they seem quite useful. I'm thinking about it!

[David Lyttle]

I have recently purchased a Velbon CX 460 mini to replace an earlier model from the same maker that I have been using for about 20 years. I use a digital SLR and photograph in some fairly challenging conditions. I am very pleased with the new Velbon and would recommend it without reservation.

[ellenndan]

Hi there, we are trying to post some photos onto the site. But cant get them small enough. Can anyone help.
Thanks Ellen and Dan

[Maggi Young]

Well, I'm not an expert in such matters by any means, but the BD is sleeping and Mark doesn't seem to be online tonight! Trouble is, any advice will vary depending on what type of photo manipulation programme you are using.  We edit our photos in ACDSee 4.0    for the forum I resize to approx 650 pixels wide by 450 high and use the compression tool ( Jpeg options) which appears when you go to 'Save' to reduce the file size further if need by. So, if I begin with a photo 1600x1200x24b at 446.5 KB, resize by pixels only to 650 x 487x24b I can get 104.5KB or I can compress it further, using the JPeg option to 68.2 KB

this is the file, reduced simply by reducing the number of pixels:
Garden view with Rhododendron 'Rose Elf' pixel sized


Garden view with Rhododendron 'Rose Elf' further compressed


Click the pix to enlarge on screen.

Hope this helps a bit!

[Maggi Young]

You will see that for viewing at this size, there is not much difference in the two pix.....the smaller size means you can fit more pix into the 300kb allowance for each post, though. up to a maximum of ten pix.

[mark smyth]

Oh yes he is! but they have hidden their email address to send what I've written

I use Photo Shop Express but most programmes do the same thing. Maggi is correct. With PSE you can reduce file size from the normal 100% to 60% like I do.

[Maggi Young]

Hiya, Mark!  Thanks for this!

[Lesley Cox]

In whatever programme you use, there should be some resize function. Select you pic, click resize, enter the size you want, either in pixels or KBs and save it with another name, thus preserving the original. That's all I need to do with Photofiltre.

[Maggi Young]

save it with another name, thus preserving the original

OOH! Yes, I should have said that... it is vital to save it with another name to preserve the original in case you need the full file size for another purpose.... publishing, printing, whatever.

[mark smyth]

or selling ... I sold two photos at the weekend.

[PEAK]

If you are running Windows XP (most peple are) I think the easiest thing to do is to download and install the small programme Image resizer from Microsoft, you can get it here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
After installing right-button clicking a picture file will give you the opportunity "resize picture" click that and you can resize to any size you want. And the new (resized) picture will be saved under a new file name!

Cheers

[SueG]

The package I use (IrfanView) allows you to resize to a specific size but also lets you halve the image size - I find if I do that twice ie take it down to 25% of the original they are a fine size to post and Ok to view and pressing the 'half' button twice is faster than working our how many pixels.
The saving it to another name is a really good point and one I occasionally forget to do!
Sue